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More than 50 years ago, British Columbians turned to BC Hydro to build the electricity system they count on to power their homes, drive B.C.'s economy and create jobs. We're now building again to ensure our children and our grandchildren continue to enjoy the same benefits of clean, reliable power.
We're upgrading dams and generating stations, and building new substations and transmission lines needed to deliver electricity to customers. All told, we're investing close to $2 billion a year over the next three years — the infrastructure equivalent of building a Canada Line every year. With regular maintenance, electricity infrastructure will last for decades, so our capital projects will benefit not only current customers, but also the customers of tomorrow.
Conservation remains the most cost-efficient energy supply option, but conservation alone isn't enough to meet new demand due to population and economic growth. B.C.'s population is growing faster than the national average, and more people means more housing, more businesses and more retail space — all of which need power. We also have to build redundancy in the system, so we can reroute electricity in the event of an outage on a major line, and we have to improve the system's resiliency so we're better prepared for winter storms, earthquakes, or equipment failure.
Most of our facilities were built decades ago, and frankly, they're getting old. The Ruskin dam and generating station, near Mission, for example, began operating in 1930 — just three years after the first "talkie" feature film was released in theatres. BC Hydro has launched a six-year construction project to replace the Ruskin powerhouse and upgrade the dam — making the facility more efficient and more seismically safe. What makes this project unique is the facility will continue to generate electricity while we're doing the upgrades. Imagine trying to replace the brakes of your car while driving down the freeway and you'll understand the challenge.
At the nearby Stave Falls dam, we're replacing spillway gates installed in the 1920s. The seven-metre-high, 24-tonne gates — manufactured by a Richmond company — will enable BC Hydro to reliably release excess water from the reservoir in a safe, controlled manner. The gates have to fit so perfectly, the margin for error is measured in millimetres.
On Vancouver Island, the John Hart generating station near Campbell River dates back to 1947 and has reached the end of its service life. The replacement project is before the British Columbia Utilities Commission, and if approved, the new generating station would be able to withstand a major earthquake and better protect fish habitat. These are important project benefits for a site surrounded by provincial parkland in a community world renowned for its salmon.
In Vancouver, we face construction challenges as we build in densely populated neighbourhoods.
We're building an underground transmission line that involved tunnelling 30 metres under the bed of False Creek to serve the fast growing Mount Pleasant-False Creek area. The project is the most significant investment in Vancouver's electricity system in 30 years and includes a three-storey substation that will be the most seismically safe building of its type in North America, ensuring a steady electricity supply even after a disaster.
In addition, a new 500-kilovolt transmission line from Merritt to Coquitlam will expand the capacity of the main transmission system that brings power from generation facilities in the northern and southern Interior to customers in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island. Built in the early 1970s, this system is reaching the limits of its capacity — particularly during the winter months when electricity use peaks.
In the Columbia Valley, another transmission project — the most significant electricity investment in the region in almost 50 years — will increase power reliability in communities from Invermere to Field. With federal and industry funding, we're also building the 287-kilovolt Northwest Transmission Line from Terrace to Bob Quinn Lake — electrifying an area currently off the grid and spurring economic development.
In total, we're stringing more than 700 kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines — equivalent to the driving distance between Vancouver and Prince George. In addition, over three years, BC Hydro is building 11 new substations and significantly upgrading another seven substations — facilities where electricity is transformed to a lower voltage so it can be used in homes and businesses safely
These projects create jobs and economic opportunities for contractors, local suppliers and vendors.
The Ruskin project in Mission alone will generate 1,000 jobs over six years. Close to 400 workers are stationed at a work camp at the Mica generating station north of Revelstoke, where we are adding two turbines.
Elsewhere, First Nations are finding employment — helping to clear right-of-ways for the new transmission lines.
At the end of the day, it's about keeping the lights on. BC Hydro is planning prudently and investing wisely in necessary infrastructure, so that as the days grow shorter and colder, British Columbians can rely on electricity to warm their homes, light their kids' schools, and power their businesses. All with the flick of a switch.
Chris O'Riley is executive vice-president of generation and Greg Reimer is executive vice-president of transmission and distribution at BC Hydro.


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After Jeopardy, IBM's Watson is ready to face challenges from the real world. It is all set to fulfil its intended destiny.
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Watson is best known for walloping human Jeopardy champions at their own game. However, this is just the tip of the Iceberg, as far as Watson is concerned. Originally conceived to serve as a fool-proof database for medicine and healthcare, Watson has been picked up by WellPoint Inc. to serve as an invaluable source for patient information, medical history, known treatments, operational procedures and much more. Watson will be able to delve into its deep memory bank, which will be fed with a huge library of medical books and journals, to come up with a solution in seconds.
Though it is obvious what great help this can be, Dr, Sam Nussbaum, Wellpoint's chief medical officer puts it nicely:
Imagine having the ability within three seconds to look through all of that information, to have it be up to date, scientifically presented to you, and based on that patient's medical needs at the moment you're caring for that patient.
No, Watson is not here to replace human doctors, but it can support them really well. Watson's great computing speed will also be of great help to cancer research and ontological operational procedures.
The amount for which Watson's services are being availed for is unknown. Watson's $1 million, won in Jeopardy, was given to charity.
This is the beginning of the road for Watson, says IBM. Watson will then be able to take up challenges from other human sectors, like finances, public works and security.

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As a college professor and a resident of Durham, NC, I have been following the stories in the local, national, and even international press about the Duke University student known as "Belle Knox" (or "Lauren" in some articles) who has been performing in pornography to pay her tuition. If you're interested in reading along, you can check out these articles from The Duke Chronicle, WNCN, The News and Observer, The Washington Post blog, The Huffington Post, Gawker.com, and UK's Independent.
I am fascinated by the articles written about and by this, shall I say "candid," young woman, who declares her rights to own and display her sexuality. She is repeatedly quoted as saying she does the work to make money to pay for her $60,000+ per year tuition to Duke.
She wrote this blog about her experiences for XOJane, and as a follow-up article, she addresses the responses she received from the first article. In these pieces, Belle Knox asserts her rights to participate in pornography and to own her sexuality. She also responds to the criticism and harassment she has received in response to her story, saying that no one has the right to judge or vilify her.
The issues raised by this case relate directly to two of my BLS classes, Photography: Contexts and Illusions (BLS 345) and Representing Women (BLS 348).
In Photography, we study the work of Cindy Sherman, who photographs herself in the guises of stereotypical film characters (the housewife, the femme fatale, and the victimized girl of horror movies, for examples), women in art historical portraiture, and mythological, monstrous female forms to critique and parody the representation of a "Woman" across visual culture, specifically as a fantasy persona constructed through the male gaze. Sherman's strategic role playing in the images articulates the artificiality of her staging and asserts ideas that identity is a performance.
Sherman also makes works that critique the pornography industry specifically. She photographs herself in excessive compositions or uses prosthetic or mannequin bodies to recreate explicit porn-like poses. Her images attempt to frame how these images are staged and strategically non-lifelike.
(Follow this link to see more of Sherman's work at MOMA).
In Representing Women, we analyze the work of Renee Cox, who also photographs herself in the poses and costumes of various dubious roles for woman. These works satirize and critique the ways women, particularly black women, have been objectified in visual culture historically.
(See more of Renee Cox's work at her website here).
These classes debate how effective Sherman and Cox are in their postmodern parodies. Many students feel these artists are simply contributing to the profusion of visual culture that objectifies women's bodies. I wondered about the Duke student's actions and whether they could be thought of as performative acts. Maybe she is working within the system of pornography to expose its problematic history. Perhaps she is acting in the traditions of Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who was employed as a Playboy Bunny in New York's Playboy Club in 1963. Steinem then wrote a two part article for Show Magazine exposing how women were treated in the clubs. Here are links to a scanned PDF copy of her essay on the subject and an article about her acts in the New York Times from 1985.
Is Belle Knox doing research for an exposé? Is she gaining experience for the future career goals that she claimed on ABC's The View, where she stated that she plans to pursue a law degree to advocate for Civil Rights, and particularly women's rights? Is she a Feminist?
I still have these questions, and found this provocative article, written by Duke professor Robin Kirk, which raises more issues.
In the article, Kirk underscores the role pornography has played in the objectification and abuse of women, historically and specifically on the Duke campus. Pointing to more distinctly Feminist forms of pornography, she questions what is Feminist or even avant-garde about the student's performance in this media.
My questions mount! I was particularly moved by seeing Belle Knox speak on ABC's The View on Monday March 17, as she was interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg, Sherry Shepherd, Jenny McCarthy, and Barbara Walters. I was disappointed that no one on the show spoke of Barbara Walters' own experiences with pornography, or the display of women's bodies. In 1962, in an act similar to Gloria Steinem's, Walters was a Playboy Bunny for a day and reported for NBC's Today Show. Here is an article about the event with a clip of the story.
On The View, the 18 year old student reported that she has made 25-30 films, for which she was paid $1000-$1500 each, and that her parents supported her positions. She also spoke about the hostile reactions of others when her story was exposed: People have declared she should be expelled from Duke, or even raped; she has received thrash thrown at her and numerous death threats. I found her to be very intelligent and eloquent in speaking about her beliefs and defending her actions, as well as every woman's right to ownership of her sexuality.
The co-hosts were varied in their reactions. Whoopi Goldberg said she understood why the student has said she felt "empowered" by doing the films. Sherry Shepherd, who tends to be the most morally conservative of the group, was almost in tears as she said that her heart broke for the girl and expressed how she would feel if any of her female family members "sold" their sexuality. And although I respect and support many of the Duke student's positions, I shared Shepherd's sadness, not from personal or familial experiences of my own, but from thinking about the woman (as well as men, AND children) who have been and continue to be exploited, degraded, and abused in venues of pornography. I would advocate the rights of the Duke student's and other artists' and Feminists' participation in these venues, most especially when their projects intervene on and critique the traditions within they work. And as an educator, I see these acts as stimulating material for conversations and debates about key contemporary issues.
* Update: Condé Nast's The Scene has produced a 25-minute web documentary about Miriam Weeks and her alter-ego Belle Knox that may be worth a watch:


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'Map & No Direction,' Beth Bombara
If you think you�ve had enough of smoky chanteuses, you haven�t heard Beth Bombara. On �Map & No Direction,� her luscious quaver sets her twangy Americana apart, mixing old-fashioned saloon crooning with engaging melodies and rootsy longing.
It�s a perfect match for the longing melancholy of her lyrics, which are awash in the specter of lonely hours and missing lovers. To cap it off, Bombara offers a stunning cover of Dylan�s �Blind Willie McTell� that perfectly captures the song�s haunting brilliance. Dare I say it�s better than Bob�s? LISTEN TO: �Blind Willie McTell�
'Hang,' Foxygen
Maybe best described as glam/disco/Broadway -- sometimes separately, sometimes all at once -- Foxygen's �Hang� is a punchy eight-track song cycle that I�m pretty sure is meant as a spoof of overblown, ornate �70s rock tropes, but who cares? It�s all so well done, drenched as it is in inspirations from David Bowie to Elton John to �The Rocky Horror Picture Show,� that it�s possible to get the joke and enjoy the musicality of the album at the same time. (It probably won�t hurt if you happened to live through and enjoy this stuff the first time around.) LISTEN TO: �Follow the Leader�
'Fear & Love,' Jake Clemons
Far from the gruff basso profundo that his Uncle Clarence used when he wasn�t blowing sax for Bruce Springsteen, Jake Clemons -- who now holds his uncle�s old spot in the E Street Band -- brings a smooth, reedy tone to his first full-length collection of low-key rockers about life, love and being better human beings. But there�s a genuine sweetness behind those airy vocals that makes this album so engaging: Like Linus� pumpkin patch, Clemons has sincerity in spades.
Marked by great percussion, eminently listenable arrangements (with many instruments played by Clemons himself) and just enough verve to get toes tapping, �Fear & Love� is a sure sign that when it comes to musical vision, Clemons is becoming a big man in his own right. LISTEN TO: �Sick, Broke & Broken�
'Graveyard Whistling,' Old 97�s
Whether or not you think Old 97�s are the best alt country band of the current millennium -- and you could definitely make the argument -- it�s hard to say it�s not the most consistent. More than two decades and a dozen records in, they�ve never had a dud, and �Graveyard Whistling� is no exception: If anything, frontman Rhett Miller and company have upped the ante with their latest collection of guitar-fueled, rollicking, sardonic twang.
All the usual suspects are here -- Jesus, drinking, nostalgia, misanthropic women -- along with Miller�s long-cultivated skepticism about the efficacy of any of them. A spooky rockabilly collaboration with Brandi Carlisle on �Good With God� is a highlight, but there�s not a loser in the bunch: Old 97�s never fail to make you feel you can handle anything life throws out you if you�ve got the right company. LISTEN TO: �Irish Whiskey Pretty Girls�
Old 97�s play The Sinclair in Cambridge May 4-5; details at old97s.com.
'Are You Listening?,' Peter Mulvey
Evidence that stalwart folkie Peter Mulvey is clearly a poet and storyteller at heart: �Are You Listening?� contains a spoken-word poem (�Winter Poem�) and a monologue set to music (�The Other Morning Over Coffee�) nestled among its moving collection of intimate, far-ranging and often funny folk musings, produced by Ani DiFranco.
At times conversational and at others brooding, Mulvey growls and whispers his way through the highs and lows of human relationships, alternating between torrents of words and, in tracks like the haunting �Which One Were You?� (for Trayvon Martin), spare stanzas that reveal just enough. That song in particular is reminiscent of Leonard Cohen�s more poetic work; in fact, in the absence of Leonard, you could do a lot worse than Mr. Mulvey. LISTEN TO: �Just Before The War�
Peter Mulvey plays Club Passim in Cambridge April 6-8; details at PeterMulvey.com.
'Pile Driver,' The Suitcase Junket
I don�t know how The Suitcase Junket, a.k.a. Matt Lorenz, feels about more cowbell, but he certainly likes the �Test Your Strength!� carnival bell -- for a good portion of �Pile Driver� it seems like there won�t be a single song without a sound effect that reminds you of Moe getting bonked. It�s one of many quirks that makes Lorenz�s crunchy Americana and grimy folk rock -- interlocked with hardcore blues, bluegrass bounce and even bayou stomp -- such a unique and unexpected treat.
Lorenz is a one-man band, but �Pile Driver� -- on which he breaks out a hoarder�s stash of homemade instruments -- has a rich sound that�s anything but spare, except by design on moodier tracks like �Why So Brief� and the fine, folky �Red Flannel Rose.� Instead, the eccentric instrumentation is a perfect complement to Lorenz�s offbeat folkster croon. LISTEN TO: �Seed Your Dreams�
�Pile Driver� is due out April 21. The Suitcase Junket plays The Sinclair in Cambridge May 31; details at thesuitcasejunket.com.
Peter Chianca is author of "Glory Days: Springsteen's Greatest Albums." Follow him on Twitter at @pchianca.


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Hi! I fell in love with ceramics at the end of college in a 101 class. By then it was too late to change my major I was unable to take more classes and then I was distracted by babies for several years. I later took another ceramics class from a local studio that doesn't exist any more. I didn't improve much because I was still being distracted by children. Now they are older and I have some time and splurged on some entry level tools. I am accepting that there is nothing in the world I love doing more than creating with clay. I currently substitute teach and if I could eventually make at least that much doing this craft that I love, I would be quite content with a ceramics "career." It is my meditation. I am just learning and am currently really slow and not terribly knowledgeable. I'll get there though. YouTube, books and forums are currently my teachers. I like using clay as a canvas. I am a bit obsessed with trees and ravens. Creating glazes currently scares me and I wish I could take a class on it. I dream of a studio/greenhouse space of my very own. Please fell free to give me any and all advice - I am a student!


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As we approach a new decade in 2010, my mind instinctively goes back in time and scans the past decade. My thoughts easily jump ...
As we approach a new decade in 2010, my mind instinctively goes back in time and scans the past decade.
My thoughts easily jump back to ten years ago as we prepared for Y2K and the new millennium. I recall the fear and excitement as we watched the local, national and international news on New Year's Eve to see if computer programs would crash and send the world into chaos. Our government technology teams spent over three years preparing for that night, and I remember the relief when all went well.
Events seemed to seesaw back and forth over the past ten years. After Y2K came the contested Presidential election of 2000 - with "hanging chads" and plenty of resulting technological challenges.
Next came 9/11/01. Who can forget where they were on 911? I was in the Romney building in downtown Lansing, Michigan. Our team was building the first Michigan.gov portal, which would bring together state websites in new ways and provide one face of government to citizens. I was shocked as I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV.
But these events are more than just sad memories or interesting History Channel topics. These true stories helped to shape who we are in government today. After September 11 th , government priorities changed. The Department of Homeland Security was established in Washington DC. I went back to focusing on computer security at work.
Meanwhile the Internet was taking off. Everyone was going online as never before. Families installed wireless networks in homes, MySpace and then Facebook became huge, and Google became a verb. Check out these fascinating statistics from CNET on average web usage growth over the past fifteen years.
Along with the good came the bad. The increase in cyber crime and identity theft started attracting attention. The growth in malware became exponential.
In my opinion, the growth of Internet use is the most important technology story of the decade. Yes, there are many sub-trends, such as the Apple iPod, blackberries, and more. But the Internet is changing so many aspects of society. Taking a peek into the future, I suspect virtual worlds and avatars are going to continue that trend into the next decade.
I could go on and on regarding events this decade. The historic election of Barack Obama, our "great recession" and the many events of 2009 will certainly be remembered decades from now. New pushes towards infrastructure projects such as rural broadband, health IT and cloud computing are certainly changing government now and will shape our future.
But my point in this blog is to encourage you to look back as you look forward. Aristotle said, " If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development."
So I encourage you to take a few minutes and visit the "Wayback Machine" online. This Internet archive will take you back to what various websites looked like on different days. Scroll down and look at the coverage of various significant events.
This has been a remarkable first decade of the 21 st century. What new technology has made the biggest impact to government in your opinion?
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Funeral services for Effie Richardson Marshall, age 77 of Pollock, Tex., were at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 at Carroway Funeral Chapel in Pollock. Burial was in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Lufkin with Bro. Dennis Cook and Bro. Roy Hall officiating.
Mrs. Marshall was born Feb. 12, 1933 in Rusk County to Addie Weatherford and Forest Richardson. She had lived in Pollock for more than 50 years where she was a librarian at Hudson ISD for 18 years. She was a member of Memorial Baptist Church.
She died Thursday, Aug. 26. She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Thomas Lynn Marshall, a daughter, Janet Leigh Dixon, and two sisters and brothers-in-law, Estell and James Hamilton and Mertie Fay and Rayford Collier.
She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Calvin Marshall, a son, Joe Marshall, and a son-in-law, Larry Dixon, all of Pollock; five grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Chris and Donnie Malmquist, Violet and Kenneth Richardson, and Betty and Charles Shropshire, all of Mount Vernon; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Albert and Millie Richardson of Shreveport, La., Clint and Patty Richardson of Pollock, and Darrel and Annette Richardson of Hudson; and many nieces and nephews.
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The plan sets several goals for 2020, including for 31% of the gross energy consumption, 60% of the electricity produced, 29.9% of the energy consumption in the heating and cooling sector, and 10% in the transport sector to be of renewable origin. Dependence on imports will also be reduced, thanks to energy production from domestic sources. The industrial cluster associated with wind energy will be consolidated and sustainable development will be promoted. Specific measures to achieve the goals include the creation by 2012 of a fund to alleviate variations in electricity prices.
The plan forecasts that, between 2010-2020, installed renewables capacity will grow by an average 6.8% annually. Power output will expand by an average 4.3% every year. By 2020, installed wind capacity will reach 6.95GW, 50MW of that offshore, producing an annual total of 14.6TWh. The development of offshore wind is dependent on technological developments and their economic viability.
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The East Hampton Library has a small peaceful atrium, a wonderful place open to the sky, filled with benches, gardens and flowers surrounded on all sides by the library. The atrium doors go from the interior hallways out to it, where people go for quiet contemplation.
Two weeks ago, a duck flew into the atrium. It walked around, peering through the window into the various offices and library stacks. People hoped it would fly out, but it wouldn't. And then when people went out to shoo it out of there, it hid behind a bush. Everyone figured, well, it got in. When it wants to go, it will git.
But it didn't. Last week, as a matter of fact, it presented the world with 11 baby ducklings. They came hopping out from behind the bush. She had, when nobody noticed, built a little nest and laid her eggs behind that bush.
Now, out in the cold cruel world, just a hop-skip and flutter over the red tiled roof of the library, there lurks all manner of predators—turtles, fox, snakes, motorists. Mom, if she wanted to, could fly out herself. She flew in. But no, she will stay with her ducklings.
At this point, of course, the library staff has gone out of its way to help. They've put a child-size swimming pool in the atrium and filled it with water for the ducklings. Bricks have been stacked to make little stairs they can walk up to it. They've flooded some of the gardens. Also, duck food has been put out for them in little pans. Soon a time will come when the baby ducks will waddle over and line up all in a row behind the mama duck and follow her up into the pool to take swimming lessons.
When night falls, the lights go out in the library, leaving the 11 little ducks and their mama out in the silence of the atrium. They tiptoe back to the nest behind the bush to safely arrange themselves for the night.
All these little ducks will know about the world, as they grow up, is this safe little oasis surrounded by books, lamps, easy chairs and bookshelves, and quiet folks who sit and read.
Maybe the books will tell them something. At night, when the little duck family huddles together, the creatures from all these books will come out to play, Captain Ahab's Great White Whale, Winston Churchill reading passages from his six-volume history of World War II, Albert Einstein working on his formula in the patent office in Austria, Macbeth and the ghost of Banquo, Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. On certain nights, the full moon will appear overhead. Perhaps the kids pumping the pedals of their bicycles with E.T. in one will pass in front of that moon.
The library is open every day. The public is welcome. That's why they call it the public library. Even if you don't have a hankering for a book, and you just want to go to see the ducks, you are allowed to come and peer out the windows to see the goings on in the atrium. But you can't go into it. It scares the ducks.
Across the street from the library is the Town Pond, home to predators, prey and everything else. Swimming in the pond are loons, geese and other ducks, and sometimes swans. Mama might remember this awful thing that happened there, she might have flown over to the atrium because of it. But the babies couldn't know about about it because it happened a long time ago, in June, before they were born.
In that month, two mute swans appeared in the pond to stake their claim. As they were the first of the season, no other swans would be tolerated unless invited. Soon, a baby swan, a cygnet, joined these swans. There had been no nest, no eggs. Where had he come from? He was now to be seen, a cute little furry grey creature, paddling proudly flanked by the two adults. An investigation revealed that in the evening, the two grown-ups would leave the pond with the cygnet and walked down Ocean Road to Turbell Lane and then into Hook Pond a quarter mile away. Their nest was there. They slept at night at Hook. They spent the day in Town.
And then, the worst happened. One morning, the two grown ups were seen walking along, the space between them exactly the same as when they had the cygnet. But there was no cygnet.
What was this? People speculated that either in Town or in Hook, one of the small snapping turtles who live in those waters took the cygnet from below, first latching onto one of its legs as it swam along, then pulling it down to its doom.
Today, the two swans still appear in Town Pond, seemingly unconcerned, just doing what they do, but childless. Our hearts go out to them.


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Both the Seahawks and the Broncos have already been declared Super Bowl champions on tens of thousands of t-shirts, hats, and other merchandise.
That's how manufacturers fulfil the immediate post-game demand for fan gear — by making it ahead of time, long before knowing which team will come out on top.
So where does all the losing team's merchandise go?
On Monday morning, the products will be shipped from the National Football League and various retailers to a warehouse in Pennsylvania belonging to World Vision, an international aid group. From there, the merchandise will be sent overseas to impoverished nations and distributed to children and families in need.
Last year, unused San Francisco 49ers gear went to Zambia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Armenia and Romania, according to World Vision. In 2011, after the New Orleans Saints defeated Indianapolis, the Colts gear was sent to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Here's a photo of a girl in Nicaragua wearing an NFL t-shirt declaring the New England Patriots the champions of the 2008 Super Bowl, when the Patriots lost to the New York Giants.
Where the merchandise goes this year has yet to be determined, according to World Vision spokeswoman Sheryl Watkins.
"After the goods have been received and inventoried, we will let our offices around the world know what is available," she said. "Those who have a need in their projects for a particular item — sweatshirts in cold-weather countries, t-shirts in tropical ones — will make their requests, and we will ship them over the next year."
Among the countries where they may end up are Zambia, Bosnia, Romania, Armenia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mongolia, Uganda, Burundi, Congo, Mali, and Rwanda, she said.
Here's a little boy wearing Patriots gear in Nicaragua:
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On Sunday night, May 14 2006, NBC aired the final episode of The West Wing. Since its debut in September of 1999 when "President Josiah Bartlet," played by Martin Sheen, told some cartoon-ish conservative religious leaders to "get your fat asses out of my White House," as ratings fell over the years the prime time drama regularly advocated liberal policies and showcased liberal causes. From oldest to newest, this Web compilation provides text and video/audio for a "Top Ten" presentation of some of the program's most notorious liberal moments and crusades. Actually, you'll find nine scenes pushing liberal ideas followed by one unusual scene which mocked liberal opposition to tax cuts.
■ September 22, 1999, the series debut. Viewers saw how the Hollywood Left views conservatives as the show concocted a preposterous plot and series of scenes which portrayed leaders of the Religious Right as anti-Semitic buffoons. The show culminated with an angry Democratic "President Josiah Bartlet," played by Martin Sheen, indignantly telling some conservative ministers: "You can all get your fat asses out of my White House." For more, check the September 29, 1999 CyberAlert.
Video (4 minutes) is of the scene described below:
Controversy ensues after Deputy Chief-of-Staff "Josh Lyman" says to a Ralph Reed-type character, named "Mary," on a TV show: "Lady, the God you pray to is too busy being indicted for tax fraud."
For some reason this concerns the Democratic White House and the staff call in Mary and several other male Christian Right types so that Josh can apologize. Mary then demands that in return for "insulting millions of Americans" the liberal President come around to their viewpoint: "Sunday morning radio address: public morals, school prayer, or pornography, take your pick.
Mary soon says to Josh: "It was only a matter of time with you, Josh. That New York sense of humor was just a little..."
A reverend tries to calm her down and Josh points out he's from Connecticut, but "Toby Ziegler," the Communications Director played by Richard Schiff, is on to her: "She meant Jewish. When she said New York sense of humor, she was talking about you and me."
The show soon portrays the ministers as confused by basic religious facts:
Reverend: "The First Commandment says: 'Honor thy father.'"
Toby: "No, it doesn't."
Josh: "Toby!"
Toby: "It doesn't. No! If I'm going to make you sit through this preposterous exercise, we're going to get the names of the damn commandments, right. Honor thy father is the Third Commandment."
Reverend: "Then what's the First Commandment?"
In walks "President Bartlet," limping from a bike accident: "'I am the Lord your God, thou shalt worship no other god before me.' Boy those were the days, huh?"
The Reverend asks Bartlet: "If our children can buy pornography on any street corner for five dollars, isn't that too high a price to pay for free speech?"
Bartlet: "No."
The Reverend seems surprised by this logical answer from a liberal: "Really?"
Bartlet: "On the other hand I do think that five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography."
"C.J.", the Press Secretary: "Why don't we all sit down?"
Bartlet: "No, let's not, C.J., these people won't be staying that long."
Turning to one of the ministers, Bartlet demands: "Al, how many times have I asked you to denounce the practices of a fringe group that calls itself the Lambs of God."
Reverend Al: "Sir, that's not up to me."
Bartlet: "Crap, it is up to you, Al. You know my wife, Abby, she never wants me to do anything while I'm upset. Twenty-eight years ago I came home from a very bad day at the State House, I tell Abby I'm going out for a drive. I get into the station wagon, put it in reverse and pull out of the garage full speed. Except I forgot to open the garage door. Abby told me not to drive while I was upset and she was right. She was right yesterday when she told me not to get on that damn bicycle while I was upset but I did it anyway. And I guess I was just about as angry as I'd ever been in my life. Seems my granddaughter Annie had given an interview in one of those teen magazines and somewhere between movie stars and makeup tips she talked about her feelings on a woman's right to choose. Now, Annie, all of 12 has always been precocious but she's got a good head on her shoulders and I like it when she uses it so I couldn't understand it when her mother called me in tears yesterday. I said, Elizabeth what's wrong. She said, 'It's Annie.' Now, I love my family, and I've read my Bible from cover to cover so I want you to tell me from what part of Holy Scripture do you suppose the Lambs of God drew their divine inspiration when they sent my 12 year old granddaughter a Raggedy Ann doll with a knife stuck through its throat? You'll denounce these people Al, you'll do it publicly, and until you do you can all get your fat asses out of my White House. C.J., show these people out."
Mary: "I believe we can find the door."
Bartlet: "Find it now!"
■ January 12, 2000 episode. Just two weeks before the real State of the Union address by the real President, NBC's fictional West Wing delivered the State of the Union message every liberal dreams the real President would provide: The "era of big government is over" is itself over. After becoming angered by error-laden arguments against the National Endowment for the Arts, "Communications Director Toby Ziegler" marches in to see the President and within seconds convinces him to use his State of the Union address to show how "government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind....An instrument of good." For more about what leads up to the scene, check the January 27, 2000 CyberAlert.
Video (1:30) is of the scene described below:
Toby goes to see the President in the living quarters where he is recovering from the flu. He's joined there by "Deputy Chief-of-Staff Josh Lyman." Toby utters the line to the President: "The era of big government is over."
President Bartlet: "You want to cut the line?"
Toby reaches into his liberal gut to deliver an emotional appeal for hardcore liberalism: "I want to change the sentiment. We're running away from ourselves. And I know we can score points that way. I was a principle architect of that campaign strategy right along with you Josh. But we're here now. Tomorrow night we do an immense thing. We have to say what we feel, that government no matter what it's failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind. No one gets left behind. An instrument of good. I have no trouble understanding why the line tested well, Josh, but I don't think that means we should say it. I think that means we should change it."
Toby's sermon convinces the President: "I think so, too. What do you think Josh?"
Josh: "I make it a point never to disagree with Toby when he's right, Mr. President."
■ October 4, 2000 season premiere featured a rant against guns. NBC answered the May season-ending cliffhanger which showed the President and his aides being fired upon as they walked to the limos after "President Josiah Bartlet" addressed a group of students at the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia. When the show unfolded, in a plot line ripped from what really happened to Ronald Reagan, as the limo raced from the scene a Secret Service agent saw blood coming out of Bartlet's mouth, figured out hed been shot and diverted the limo to The George Washington University Hospital. By the end of the two hour season premiere, Bartlet had recovered, but aide "Josh Lyman" remained in critical condition. A bunch of West Virginia skinheads were the shooters and their target was not the President but "Charlie Young," the black personal aide to the President who is dating the Presidents white daughter.
Video (1 minute) of the scene described below:
The liberal political crusading came when Allison Janney, as Press Secretary "C.J. Cregg," briefed the press the morning after the shooting. She used the barely 12-hour-old tragedy to make a political point:
"This is our fifth press briefing since midnight and obviously there is one story that's going to be dominating the news around the world for the next few days and it would be easy to think that President Bartlett, Joshua Lyman and Stephanie Abbott were the only people who were victims of a gun crime last night. They weren't. Mark Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia were killed by a gun last night. He was a biology teacher and she was a nursing student. Tina Bishop and Belinda Larkin were killed with a gun last night. They were twelve. There were 36 homicides last night, 480 sexual assaults, 3,411 robberies, 3,685 aggravated assaults, all at gunpoint. If anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns I'd only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world. Back to the briefing."
In the back of the room a reporter turned to Chief-of-Staff "Leo McGarry" and opined: "She's good." McGarry agreed: "Yes she is."
■ October 18, 2000 episode. NBC gave a prime time airing to the anger behind the Hollywood Lefts crusade to shut down syndicated radio personal advice host Dr. Laura's daytime Paramount TV show. There was no mistaking the intended identity of "Dr. Jena Jacobs" as "President Josiah Bartlet" quizzed her about misleading listeners about her expertise by calling herself "Doctor" when she has no medical degree and castigated her reference to homosexuality as "an abomination." When she cited the Bible, he sarcastically asked: "Im interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7....What would a good price for her be?" Bartlet/Sheen scolded: "You may be mistaking this for
your monthly meeting of the ignorant tight-ass club." The setting for the confrontation was a reception at the White House for talk radio hosts, all of whom were portrayed as buffoons. One boasted to the White House Press Secretary: "I call myself Gary with a G."
Video (2:15) is of the scene described below:
"President Bartlet" walked into the large room where most people were standing and talking, but "Dr. Jena Jacobs" who was played by a blond women prettier and younger than the real Dr. Laura (though with the same hair style), remained sitting, the relevance of which you'll soon see.
Bartlet saw her and became distracted, leading to this exchange followed by a sermon from Bartlet: "Forgive me Dr. Jabobs, are you an MD?"
Jacobs: "A PhD."
Bartlet: "A PhD?"
Jacobs: "Yes sir."
Bartlet: "Psychology?"
Jacobs: "No sir."
Bartlet: "Theology?"
Jacobs: "No."
Bartlet: "Social work?"
Jacobs: "I have a PhD in English literature."
Bartlet: "I'm asking because on your show people call in for advice and you go by the name 'Dr. Jacobs' on your show and I didn't know if maybe your listeners were confused by that and assumed you had advanced training in psychology, theology or health care."
Jacobs: "I don't believe they are confused, no sir."
Bartlet: "Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.'"
Jacobs: "I don't say homosexuality is an abomination Mr. President. The Bible does."
Bartlet: "Yes it does. Leviticus-"
Jacobs: "18:22."
Bartlet launched into an impassioned diatribe which was interspersed with shots of an uncomfortable Jacobs fidgeting: "Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? [silence in the room] While thinking about that can I ask another? My chief-of-staff, Leo McGarry, insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police?
"Here's one that's really important, 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean, Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side-by-side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you.
"One last thing. While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the ignorant tight-ass club, in this building when the President stands, nobody sits."
Unlike the real Dr. Laura, this one was silenced and after a long pause she acquiesced and stood up before a proud Bartlet walked out of the room.
■ March 27, 2002. The program railed against drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) as characters recited a litany of talking points espoused by real-life liberal environmental groups. Martin Sheen, as "President Josiah Bartlet," insisted drilling "will forever damage natural treasures like ANWR." After a staffer expresses skepticism about the damage drilling will cause, Press Secretary "C.J. Cregg" lectures him: "It hurts flesh and blood subsistence hunters in the area, changes migratory patterns in ways we don't even understand, increases freezing depths of rivers and lakes....It will cause pollutant haze and acid raid and all this in exchange for?" The skeptical staffer is now convinced and so responds with the liberal party line: "Not a lot of oil to begin with." For more on the episode, check the April 3, 2002 CyberAlert.
Video (52 seconds) is of the scene described below:
The President's personal aide, "Charlie Young," played by Dule Hill, expresses doubt about the White House position. He and "Press Secretary C.J. Cregg," played by Allison Janney, have this exchange:
Charlie: "If we want to be energy independent, if we've been relying for too long on foreign oil, what's wrong with drilling in Alaska?"
C.J.: "It will do huge and lasting damage to the environment and will not in the long run reap that much oil."
Charlie: "It will have zero impact on the environment. And how do you know how much oil is down there until you explore?"
C.J.: "Explore?"
Charlie: "Yes."
C.J.: "You mean drill?"
Charlie: "That's how you get where the oil's at."
C.J. asks an aide to put together a briefing packet for Charlie and soon after the two meet up again in a hallway and Charlie reveals he has seen the light:
C.J.: "So as a matter of cold fact, chipper, you'll see that it's the porcupine caribou and ANWR is their calving ground and you can't put a price on that, but that's hardly the point."
Charlie, reading from the folder: "36 species of fish, 36 land mammals, 160 different bird species. I admit, this is a lot of wildlife."
C.J.: "Forget the wildlife. It hurts flesh and blood subsistence hunters in the area, changes migratory patterns in ways we don't even understand, increases freezing depths of rivers and lakes."
Charlie: "And the emissions from drilling."
C.J.: "Welcome home. It will cause pollutant haze and acid raid and all this in exchange for?"
Charlie: "Not a lot of oil to begin with."
■ September 25, 2002, season premiere. Just six weeks or so before a real mid-term election, NBC's The West Wing returned to the air with its fictional "President Bartlet" campaigning for re-election six weeks before a presidential vote. West Wing creator/writer Aaron Sorkin who had Bartlet facing off against a dumb Republican Governor from the South, used NBC's prime time to advance the liberal agenda. The episode opened with a campaign rally set at an Indiana farm. Bartlet proclaimed: "We need to find energy alternatives....The Republicans are busy. They're trying to convince us that they care about new energy and that they're not in the chest pockets of Big Oil. And that's a tough sell."
Later in the two-hour season premiere, in a scene set in the Oval Office, Bartlet lectured his Commerce Secretary about a global warming treaty: "I think whats lunacy is a nation of SUV's telling a nation of bicycles that they have to change the way they live before well agree to do something about greenhouse emissions."
Video (1 minute) is of the scene described below:
The show opened with the crowd on an Indiana farm chanting "four more years!"
Sheen, as President Bartlet, related a joke he subsequently used to slam Republicans: "You know the story about the guy whose car gets stuck in a muddy hole. Farmer comes along and says he'll pull the car out of the mud, but he's going to have to charge fifty bucks because this is the tenth time he's had to pull it out of the mud today. The driver says, 'God, when do you have time to plow your land? At night?' The farmer says 'no, no,' night time is when I fill the hole with water.
"We need to find energy alternatives. We're getting our cue [cue? Hard to understand what he said], we're getting it right now. The Republicans are busy. They're trying to convince us that they care about new energy and that they're not in the chest pockets of Big Oil. And that's a tough sell. I don't envy them because their only hope is that we don't notice that they're the ones who are filling the hole with water every night. And I think Americans are smarter than that. I think we noticed....
"This isn't a time for people whose doomsday scenario is a little less at the pump for Texaco and Shell. This isn't a time for people who say there aren't any energy alternatives just because they can't think of any. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars."
■ March 26, 2003 episode presented a case for the notion that global warming isn't just a theoretical hazard, but is already killing Americans - in this case by melting a glacier and causing a sudden catastrophe in an Alaskan village. The West Wing writers created an expert hydroclimatologist, "Hillary Toobin" who told an astonished White House Chief-of-Staff, "Leo McGarry" played by (the late) John Spencer, that 14 people who died after the lake flooded were "definitely global warming fatalities." For more on what leads up to the scene described below, check the April 2, 2003 CyberAlert.
Video (1 minute) is of the scene described below:
McGarry is in a roomful of people being briefed on the situation. A man identified only as "Paul" informs him that "so far we've evacuated 250 people, but residents along the shores of the lake have been difficult to reach." McGarry asks, "Why?" The man tells him: "For one thing, most of them don't have addresses anymore."
McGarry, exasperated: "Paul-"
Paul: "And for another, there are high winds in the more exposed areas right along the shore."
McGarry: "Alright. And Canada?"
Paul: "Canada is delivering the Pavehawks inside the hour."
McGarry: "Can someone tell me why this happened? Is this an act of God?"
Woman's voice pipes up from the back of the room: "No."
McGarry, confused: "I'm sorry?"
Paul: "This is Hillary Toobin. She's a hydroclimatologist with the USGS."
McGarry: "What's a hydroclimatologist?"
Hillary Toobin: "An expert in what I'm about to say. Mean temperatures in Alaska have risen seven degrees in the last 30 years. That's insane. The temperature hike has caused glaciers to shrink and go backward, leaving lakes of melted glacier water in their wake. A shift in these collapsing glaciers puts pressure on the lakes, forcing them to overflow their natural limits, and killing, this morning, 14 people, not spotted owls."
McGarry, looking uncomfortable: "Are you telling me that the deaths this morning are the first fatalities of global warming?"
Toobin: "They're definitely global warming fatalities, but I doubt that they're the first."
■ March 23, 2005. Hollywood's ideal Republican President, as brought to life late in the 2004-2005 season on The West Wing, is "pro-choice," "pro-environment," will save the party from the "right wing," engineers a deal to raise the minimum wage and lectures about keeping religion out of politics. On the March 23 episode, a Democratic consultant told Republican presidential candidate, "Senator Arnold Vinick," played by Alan Alda, that he can win in a landslide because he's "moving the Republicans away from the right wing. You're not saying Democrats are not patriotic." After pro-life leader "Reverend Butler," who is so intolerant that he rejects Vinick's offer of the vice presidency, invites Vinick to join him in church,
Vinick lectures a gaggle of reporters: "I don't see how we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government." For much more about those scenes and others on this episode, check the April 6, 2005 CyberAlert.
Video (1:20) is of the scene described below:
In the final scene of the episode, Vinick is in front of the White House at night with a gaggle of reporters when he delivers a lecture that was clearly meant to denounce the tactics of the real President Bush, picking up after he touts his championing a hike in the minimum wage:
Reporter: "Senator, are you going to reconsider Reverend Butler's invitation to his church this weekend?"
Vinick: "I fully respect Reverend Butler's position. I mean, I appreciate his invitation and, look, I respect Reverend Butler and I respect his church too much to use it for my own political purposes. And that's exactly what I'd be doing if I went down there this Sunday, because the truth is it would just be an act of political phoniness. I may be wrong, but I suspect our churches already have enough political phonies in them."
Reporter: "Senator, do you or do you not-"
Vinick: "I don't see how we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there. If you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They won't all lie to you, but a lot of them will, and it'll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So, every day until the end of this campaign, I'll answer any question anyone has on government. But if you have a question on religion, please, go to church. Thank you."
■ October 30, 2005. Hollywood's fantasy that Republicans could sweep the nation if they only put up a "pro-choice" candidate animated the episode - and Janeane Garofalo got in a blast at conservatives. Anti-Religious Right Republican presidential nominee "Arnie Vinick" is angered by an independent ad which attacks liberal Democratic presidential candidate "Matt Santos," played by Jimmy Smits, for opposing parental notification and a ban on partial-birth abortions, policies the otherwise pro-choice Vinick backs: "Who told them to drag abortion into my campaign?" Demanding the ad be pulled, Vinick asserts: "Do you realize how many states my pro-choice position puts on the table?" Later, Santos
remarks: "Vinick's appeal is that he's a different kind of Republican, moderate, reasonable, pro-choice." Democratic VP nominee "Leo McGarry" relegates two mainstream positions as far right: "Vinick's the one who won't criticize his party on this - partial-birth, parental notification. He's bowing to the far-right fringes." For a lot more of the dialogue in this episode, check the November 4, 2005 CyberAlert.
Video (18 seconds) is of the scene below:
Vinick goes to the RNC Chairman to ask that he get the ads pulled. The RNC guy points outs corporate conservatives and libertarians like Vinick, but Vinick doesn't speak to social conservative issues.
Vinick to RNC Chairman: "If this were Europe, the Republican Party would be three parties."
RNC guy: "Thank goodness they don't have to sleep together. They just have to show up on the same day and vote Republican."
Vinick, leaning forward at table: "Do you realize how many states my pro-choice position puts on the table? Do you realize how we can grow this party if we're willing to reach out?"
An Anti-Liberal Moment:
■ November 3, 1999 episode, a rare instance of air time to ridiculing liberal assumptions as "Donna Moss," the assistant to "Deputy Chief-of-Staff Josh Lyman" played by Bradley Whitford, demands to know why Democrats won't trust her to spend her own money and so oppose a tax cut.
Video (1 minute) is of the scene described below:
Donna, played by Janel Moloney, as she and Josh walk down a hallway: "We have a $32 billion budget surplus for the first time in three decades. The Republicans in Congress want to use this money for tax relief, right?"
Josh: "Yes"
Donna: "Essentially what they're saying is we want to give back the money. Why don't we want to give back the money?"
Josh: "Because we're Democrats."
Donna: "But it's not the government's money."
Josh: "Sure it is. It's right there in our bank accounts."
Donna: "That's only because we collected more money than we ended up needing."
Josh: "Isn't it great?"
Donna: "I want my money back."
Josh: "Sorry."
Later, they pick up the argument:
Donna: "What's wrong with me getting my money back?"
Josh: "You won't spend it right."
Donna: "What do you mean?"
Josh: "Let's say your cut of the surplus is $700. I want to take your money, combine it with everybody else's money, and use it to pay down the debt and further endow Social Security. What do you want to do with it?"
Donna: "Buy a DVD player."
Josh: "See."
Donna: "But my $700 is helping employ the people who manufacture and sell DVD players, not to mention the people who manufacture and sell DVDs. It's the natural evolution of the market economy."
Josh: "The problem is the DVD player you buy might be manufactured in Japan."
Donna: "I'll buy an American one."
Josh: "We don't trust you."
Donna: "Why not?"
Josh: "We're Democrats."
Donna, exasperated: "I want my money back."
Josh, snickering: "You shouldn't have voted for us."
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What's Under the Hood
The Cell contains:
- One general-purpose 64-bit processor, the Power Processing Element (PPE).
- Eight simpler processors, the Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE).
- And a bus, the Element Interconnect Bus (EIB) that connects the PPE and SPEs.
The PPE is a 64-bit processor with a PowerPC instruction set, 64 KB of L1 cache memory, and 512K L2. Like Intel's HyperThreading, it supports simultaneous multithreading, but is remarkably simpler than Pentiums or Opterons.
SPEs are different. They have 128-bit registers and SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) instructions that can simultaneously process the four 32-bit words inside each register. Plus, there are so many registers (128) that you can unroll loops many times before running out of them. This is ideal for dataflow-based applications.
But the most radical peculiarity for programmers is that SPEs have no cache memory. Rather, they have a 256-KB-scratchpad memory called "local store" (LS). This makes SPEs small and efficient because caches cost silicon area and electrical power. Still, it complicates things for programmers. All the variables you declare are allocated in the LS and must fit there. Larger data structures in main memory can be accessed one block at a time; it is your responsibility to load/store blocks from/to main memory via explicit DMA transfers. You have to design your algorithms to operate on a small block of data at a time, fitting in the LS. When they are finished with a block, they commit the results to main memory, and fetch the next block. In a way, this feels like the old DOS days, when everything had to fit in the (in)famous 640 KB. On the other hand, an SPE's local storage (256 KB) is so much larger than most L1 data caches (a Xeon has just 32 KB). This is one of the reasons why a single SPE outperforms the highest-clocked Pentium Xeon core by a factor of three on many benchmarks.
The PPE, SPEs, and memory controllers are connected by the EIB bus. The EIB contains four data rings, two of which run clockwise and two counter-clockwise. It operates at 1.6 GHz and reaches aggregate transfer rates in excess of 200 GB/second. It employs point-to-point connections, similar to networks in high-performance clusters and supercomputers. Therefore, Cell programmers face issues of process mapping and congestion controltraditional problems of parallel computing. Additionally, the larger the blocks are, the higher their EIB transfer efficiency. So programmers are pressured to keep data structures small enough to fit the LS, but large enough to be transferred efficiently on the EIB.
Unfortunately, the compiler won't help you with parallelization, choice of optimal data structure size, scheduling of transfers, SIMDization, loop unrolling, and the like. You have to do that manually.
The quickest way to get started with Cell programming is with the Cell SDK (www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell), which contains a full system simulator. To profile applications (including data transfers), you need a real systema Mercury Computer Systems development board (www.mc.com) or Sony PlayStation 3. Mercury's board has two DD3 Cell processors clocked at 3.2 GHz, running a Linux kernel 2.6.16 with the GCC 4 compiler set. The PlayStation 3 has a single Cell, and the Fedora Core 5 distribution reportedly has been running on it (ps3.qj.net).


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2010 Forecasts: AL Central
Having picked Tampa Bay to upend the Yankees in the East, we move to the AL Central.
I'm less
confident about assessing CHICAGO than I am about any other team in the majors.
Here is a team with the terrific burgeoning talent of Gordon Beckham and Carlos
Quentin – yet its success will depend much more on virtual castoffs like Andruw
Jones, Juan Pierre, Alex Rios, and Mark Teahen. Here, if Jake Peavy rebounds,
is a four-man rotation as good as any in the game, but a bullpen where only one
guy (Matt Thornton)
does not start
the season as a question mark (how could you possibly get as many ex-studs in
one place as Kenny Williams has in Scott Linebrink, J.J. Putz, and Tony Pena?). The White Sox could
easily win the division, but I would hesitate to bet on it.
scratches their head at the quick demise in CLEVELAND – except I appear to be
the only one who's doing the scratching in surprise that everybody else is so
confused. What do you suppose happens to a team that is just one game from going to the World
Series, and then fire-sales Cy Young Award winners in consecutive season – and also
gets rid of their
catcher (who just happens to be the second-best offensive weapon at his
position in the game)? While the Indians may see some pay-off from these deals
this year (LaPorta at first, Masterson pitching, and, at least for the moment,
Marson catching), there is no reason to assume that the Indians have simply
corrected a temporary two-year blip. It is plausible that returns to form from
Fausto Carmona, Grady Sizemore, and Travis Hafner could propel this team to the
flag, but it is just as plausible that the bullpen will again be its undoing.
Remember, this is a team that has not had a reliable closer since Joe Borowski
in '07 (and this requires you to believe that Joe Borowski was a reliable
closer). There is the one wildest of wild cards: the chance that the Kerry Wood
injury is the ultimate blessing in disguise – that it shelves Wood and his
not-so-awe-inspiring 20 saves of a year ago and forces Chris Perez to live up
to his talent. Of course as Winston Churchill answered that clich� 65 years ago,
"if it is a blessing in disguise, it's very effectively disguised."
What if
Dontrelle Willis really is back? What if Miguel Cabrera's career flashed before
his eyes over the winter? What if Scott Sizemore and Austin Jackson are actual
major leaguers? If Jim Leyland and Dave Dombrowski come up trumps with those
four names, DETROIT should walk away with the division, because the rotation
seems outstanding, and the Tigers may have created its best bullpen (mostly by
default, and even though they're about to find out what the Yankees did late
last year: Phil Coke can't really get good lefties out). There are reasons to
suspect Johnny Damon will not be the kind of all-purpose threat he'd developed
into in the Bronx; 17 of his 24 homers in 2009 were hit at Yankee Stadium. It's
possible Ryan Raburn or Wilkin Ramirez might have to be rushed into the
line-up. Then again it's possible Alex Avila may force himself into it, behind
the plate.
When the
A's still played there KANSAS CITY was the club on whom the Yankees palmed off
the guys they didn't want any more. Funny that this year's Royals start Chris
Getz and Scott Podsednik, and have Josh Fields on the
bench and Brian Anderson in the convert-to-pitching Skinner Box. The excuse that the Royals are the quintessential victim of the small market/big
market divide is nonsense: according to the Forbes figure filberts, the Royals
profit about ten million a year, gain at least thirty million more from revenue
sharing, and the franchise is worth three times what David Glass paid for it a
decade ago. So the free agents brought in to surround the American League's
best starter, second or third best closer, fifth or sixth best first baseman,
and third or fourth best DH – are Rick Ankiel and Jason Kendall? It's pitiable:
with a little investment from management the Royals could contend in this
Ron Gardenhire of MINNESOTA knows 447 times more about baseball than I do. But
there is one fact that has been irrefutable since Tony LaRussa began to use
relievers on schedule, rather than when needed: Bullpen By Committee Does Not
Work. Gardy steered out of the skid just in time last night, designating Jon Rauch as his closer after weeks of saying he'd try the committee route. Do not be fooled by
reminiscences of the "Nasty Boys" – the 1990 Reds had 50 saves, 31 by Randy
Myers, 11 by Rob Dibble, 4 by Rick Mahler, 2 by Tim Layana, and 2 by Norm
Charlton. The Reds would trade Myers within a year and Charlton within two.
Minnesota's committee could have been Jeff Reardon, Rick Aguilera, Eddie Guardado, and
Al Worthington, and it still wouldn't have worked. There are reasons to fear this team might not be competitive –
the tremendous home field advantage that was the Metrodome is gone (although
depending on how the wind current works – see "Yankee Stadium, 2009" – it could
turn Joe Mauer into a 50-homer man). The new double-play combo is also symbolic
of some serious problems. It is made up of two very nice men named J.J. Hardy
(who was run out of Milwaukee even before the ascent of Alcides Escobar), and
Orlando Hudson (who has been run out of Arizona and Los Angeles and who somehow
lost his job to Ronnie Belliard in the middle of the pennant race last
year). It is also
the direct result of what must be viewed as two disastrous trades (Jason
Bartlett and Matt Garza to Tampa for Delmon Young, and Johan Santana to the
Mets for Carlos Gomez – now swapped for Hardy – and nothing of even impending
value). Nothing would please me more than to see the Team They Tried To
Contract rear up and fulfill its potential. I don't think they have the front
office personnel to pull it off.
I like Detroit to get more lemons out of the slot machine of chance that is
this division, than I do Chicago. Thus, the Tigers, close, over the White Sox.
Minnesota and Cleveland will spar for third place and whether the Twins get it
will largely depend on how Target Field "plays" as a new home. Kansas City is
last again, which offends me, because there is as little excuse for this
perpetual state of suspended animation as there would be in Cincinnati or
Milwaukee or maybe even Denver and Tampa.
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the al central is my home division and i hope my white sox win it, but i think it's going to come down to who wants to lose it the least. (and as far as brian anderson switching from of to pitcher, he might as well… he couldn't hit his weight anyway!)
We've got a Fox freak (firstname.lastname@example.com) on here…… There are so many things wrong with that post that it would sap my energy to type up all of my responses to it. I'll say this. You're a hypocrite and a moron. Anybody who sees your post is going to know you're pathetic.
Oops…..Oh boy…..He's going to probably waste time by sending me some sort of lame email.
Go watch some more lies now……
Anyway….I agree with the comment before mine. "I think the only way someone could know 447 times more about baseball than you do would be to have a computer chip implanted in his/her brain".
I think if I read more than one of his blogs in a row my brain would hurt. : (
Keith, I liked the story you read. : )
unpaka27 – don't feel too bad about not knowing about Hudson – I just about fell out of my chair reading that Johnny Damon is with Detroit!! I guess it's time I allocate a little time to baseball with the season opener bearing down eh? Yikes!!
I had the same thought about the Gardenhire statement "How is is POSSIBLE for anyone to know 447 times for about baseball than Keith??!"
Looks to me like this division is more about who doesn't suck it up as badly as the rest. I certainly would be shocked to see whichever team does rise to the top have any sort of success in the post season.
I wouldn't say I've been out of touch with sports lately (I've been following politics closely since the '08 election), but I didn't even know Orlando Hudson was with Minnesota! *facepalm*
You wrote, "Manager Ron Gardenhire of MINNESOTA knows 447 times more about baseball than I do." Which reminds me of that joke from The Young Ones, "I've told you a million times, stop exaggerating!" (Sorry…couldn't resist.) Seriously, I think the only way someone could know 447 times more about baseball than you do would be to have a computer chip implanted in his/her brain…with about a terabyte of RAM. 🙂
Dear Mr. O:
I love your MSNBC show, your political orientation, your attacks on rightwing nut cases, and your writings.
I've been a White Sox fan since 1957. The Yankees ruined my childhood and much of my adulthood as well. I just hope you're wrong about the AL Central and correct about the AL East. Like elections, those with the most $ tend to buy sports championships as well, but not always. Baseball contradicts with monopoly capitalism at many points, sadly.
Would love to hear from you!
Your loyal fan,
David R. Simon, Ph.D./Postdoctoral Fellow
KO, normally I really, really, like it when the two of us are in perfect accord on a topic. Except today, when you've essentially said everything about my Indians that I've been saying over the course of the last two years, though you did it w/o swearing. (The amount of profane invective that spews out of me every time I see Victor Martinez in a Red Sox uniform is astonishing; it's usually enhancing the bellowed question "Why? For (bleep)'s sake, WHY?" If I can grind my personal ax just a teeny bit more, let me add that the Tribe traded Martinez the day before his freakin' bobblehead night. Sheesh.) So, Keith … I'm scratching my head right beside you. You know, when I'm not banging it against a wall. Waaaaaaaaah.
On other topics, I'm betting that not even Ron Gardenhire knows about that lovely old-time phrase "figure filbert." An oldie but a goodie ("figure filbert," not Ron Gardenhire).
Unpaka27, anyone who can quote from The Young Ones is a friend of mine.
Joy on the south side of Chicago will depend, in large part, on how well Ozzie Ball works. The rotation is strong, and the defense should be improved. If this team can score some runs, and the bullpen can avoid self destruction, they should walk away with this division.
If they don't make the playoffs, I believe that this will be Ozzie's last year as manager.
@Jasmineruth: Yes, I saw that troll post and reported it immediately……glad to see it's gone.
I'm personally hoping for Detroit to win this division, if only to not have to endure the loud party that would ensue over in the next block……I live in a very small town and it be impossible NOT to hear it 😉 There's a big fan of the White Sox living over there…..even has the logo painted on his garage.
RE: Target Field. Small sample size, but based on being there for the two exhib games, and sitting on the right field overlook, the wind blows in considerably from the right field Plaza. I think lefties are going to have a hard time getting a lot of would-be-homers to clear the wall here. Alternately, it seems as though pop-ups to left are traveling much farther than they have any business to. I think it'll favor righties and hamper lefties. We'll see once the weather warms up.


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Mike also noticed odd behaviour of the clock shields (both bubble and OLED) when powered from the 3.7V LiPo battery (as shown here). After a while, the RTC returns bogus time. A quick check of the DS1307 datasheet (page 3) confirmed my suspicion:
When 5V is applied within normal limits, the device is fully accessible and data can be written and read. When a 3V battery is connected to the device and VCC is below 1.25 x VBAT, reads and writes are inhibited. However, the timekeeping function continues unaffected by the lower input voltage. As VCC falls below VBAT the RAM and timekeeper are switched over to the external power supply (nominal 3.0V DC) at VBAT.
Therefore, if one really wants the clock(s) powered from LiPo, a step-up converter must be used.
Another solution is to replace the DS1307 with the (almost) pin-to-pin compatible DS1337. This one does not provide support for a backup battery, relying instead on the main power (Vcc). Which shouldn't be a problem with a LiPo. The software would need to set the ATmega328 to sleep when the LiPo voltage drops under a certain (e.g. 3.5V) value. Once the display goes blank, the user should know it's time to charge the battery. (Note that another nice feature of DS1337 is alarm capabilities.)
I actually went through a similar exercise in the past, when I had to pick DS1337 over DS1307, for the exact same reason, but I forgot about it.
Conclusion: do not use DS1307 when the design calls for powering from 3V3 or directly from 3.7V LiPo.


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Here's another episode of my TV Dinner series. This one is dedicated to one of my ultimate feel-good shows The Mindy Project. It's snarky, it's sparkly and super fabulous. I'm a devoted fan of Mindy Kaling (read her book if you haven't already) and the other actors in the cast, especially Chris Messina and Ike Barinholtz make the show what it is.
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In Japan it's never too late to get in on the ground floor with stocks
New prime minister Shinzo Abe would like you to believe that the recent rise in prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are his doing, and the start of the rise did coincide with his election as president of the resurgent Liberal Democratic Party. Some economists have dismissed this theory, saying the stock market was due for a cyclical upturn anyway, but we're willing to give Abe the benefit of the doubt if only because stock markets are so fickle and sensitive that the TSE would probably change if Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa announced he was only going to wear green ties from now on.
Media focus on stock prices has revived the call to get the average person involved in the game. Everyone agrees that if the market improves steadily the general economy will, too. Since the crash of 2008, sparked by the failure of the Lehman Brothers investment house, all the world's stock markets have gradually regained their footing except for Tokyo's, which is dominated by foreign investors. The TSE has improved but at a much slower rate, and experts agree it has a lot to do with the fact that the vast majority of Japanese are still wary of stocks as a personal investment. One of the primary reasons for Japan's long-standing deflationary trend is the huge personal savings stash of ¥1,400 trillion, half of which is estimated to be "dead," meaning it isn't even in a bank account. If only 1 percent of this money were invested in stocks, Japan's fiscal problems would be solved. There would be more money in general circulation, and banks would then relax their loan criteria, allowing more companies to borrow money in response to perceived demand. Atsuto Sawakami of Sawakami Fund, one of Japan's leading mutual funds, has been traveling the country encouraging retirees to buy stock by pointing out that traditionally company stocks in Japan have been owned by other companies, which are always under pressure to sell, thus stifling the market as a whole. If more individuals bought stocks and kept those stocks for the long-term, prices would automatically go up. The response, according to the Asahi Shimbun, has been positive. Business magazine Diamond Online reports that only 6.6 percent of individual financial assets in Japan are invested in stocks, while in the U.S. the equivalent portion is 30.6 percent. More individuals are gravitating toward mutual funds, but the portion of assets invested in them in Japan is only 3.4 percent, while in the U.S. it's 11.8 percent. Meanwhile, 55.8 percent of individual assets in Japan are in non-performing bank accounts. The equivalent in the U.S. is 14.7 percent. Continue reading about rising stock prices in Japan →


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